Animorphs

Jake Berenson

Jake Berenson

Jake Berenson is the leader of the Animorphs, a group of five young kids and an alien who use Andalite morphing technology to transform into animals and fight against the parasitic Yeerk invasion of Earth. His brother Tom is a Yeerk Controller, adding personal stakes to the guerrilla war. Jake prefers the Siberian tiger as his combat morph and is known for his strong leadership and level-headed decision-making.

Unmorphed Physicals

  • Alongside other shrunken Animorphs, holds onto a piece of hay that Marco lifts from the ground to his nose. (source) (B42C8)
  • Falls while running away but crawls into hiding. (source) (B1C4)
  • Gets wind knocked out by a fall after running but picks himself up and continues running. (source) (B1C6)
  • Falls out of a golf cart and quickly gets up to run. (source) (B1C19)
  • Gets an angry tomcat into a carrier despite being scratched. (source) (B2C8)
  • Survives a spaceship crashing through space-time. (source) (B11C10-11)
  • Thrown through the air by an orca and lands in water unharmed. (source) (B36C8)
  • While shrunken, survives exposure to Marco’s stomach acid first as a bat, then briefly as human. (source) (B42C14/15)
  • Survives proximity to a violent explosion that killed Marco. (source) ([AU] M4C24)

Unmorphed Speed/Agility

  • Faster than Tobias, Cassie, or Marco. (source) (B1C6)
  • Dodges a thrown spear. (source) (B11C12)
  • Catches up to a golf cart. (source) (B1C19)
  • Climbs a ladder to escape a tiger. (source) (B1C20)
  • Transforms into a bird before falling 700 feet. (source) (B3C26)
  • Climbs a rusty construction crane. (source) (B1C1)

Unmorphed Skill

  • Natural leader. (source) (B3C3)
  • Extensive knowledge about boats. (source) (B46C9)
  • As Hork-Bajir, skilled shot with Dracon ray. (source) (B49C10)
  • Times attack on David carefully between morphing. (source) (B21C27)

Morphing Abilities

  • Copies DNA of animal via touch to morph into it. (source) (B1C3)
  • Cannot stay in animal form over two hours or trapped permanently. (source) (B1C4)
  • Transforming takes a few minutes. (source) (B1C7)
  • Telepathically communicates while transformed. (source) (B1C8)
  • Partially feels animal instincts while morphed, e.g., compulsion to chase strings as cat. (source) (B1C8)
  • Injuries in animal form heal when demorphing, including poison. (source) (B4C12)
  • One Animorph’s stomach sliced open as orca with guts spilling; morphs to heal. (source) (B36C7-8)
  • Biological metamorphosis resets morphing clock. (source) (B19C27)
  • Hard to tell telepathy source direction. (source) (B2C1)
  • Telepathy distance limit unclear; weak over distances like house to basement. (source) (B2C12)
  • Thought speech can be broadcast to all or specific person. (source) (M1C33)
  • Morphs tight clothing; later T-shirt and jeans with experience. (source) (B1C11)
  • Eventually morphs cycling gear instead of suit. (source) (B50C10)
  • Jake morphs T-shirt and jeans eventually. (source) (B47C13)
  • Animal in trance during DNA acquisition, lasts 10 seconds after touch. (source) (B1C19)
  • Acquires morphs from blood; immune to diseases while morphing. (source) (B18C7)
  • Excess mass stored in alternate dimension when morphing smaller animal. (source) (B10C9)
  • Morphs acquired in displaced space/time not retained. (source)

Siberian Tiger Morph

  • Routs a group of Hork-Bajir. (source) (B1C24-25)
  • Bites Visser Three and hangs on while shaken off. (source) (B1C26)
  • Knocks down Visser Three, causing pain cry. (source) (B2C18)
  • Swings paw to send Hork-Bajir flying. (source) (B2C18)
  • Leaps with lethal attack for most Earth animals. (source) (M1C26)
  • Draws blood from Visser Three with claws. (source) (B38C3)
  • Tears open a Taxxon. (source) (B39C10)
  • Bites into a Hork-Bajir. (source) (B41C1)
  • Deflates a Taxxon with a bite. (source) (B47C27)
  • Pounces from air onto Visser’s morph, bites neck and hangs on. (source) (B47C24)
  • Holds onto tree during powerful flood. (source) (B47C25)
  • Opens Hork-Bajir from belly to neck. (source) (B53C22)
  • Smashes a door. (source) (C3C26)
  • Knocks a door open. (source) (B27C8)
  • Knocks out a human. (source) (B21C23)
  • Hit by Visser Three’s fireball. (source) (B1C26)
  • Shot through leg and stabbed with spears but keeps fighting; conscious but injured. (source) (B36C21)
  • Blasted with Dracon beam to shoulder and continues. (source) (B38C3)
  • Leg blasted off by Dracon beam but keeps going; worse for wear. (source) (B38C3/4)
  • Stomach cut open, guts spill, burned on hot pipe but keeps fighting. (source) (B41C1)
  • Shot in back but keeps fighting. (source) (B46C12)
  • Legs fallen on by giant dinosaur; numb but unbroken. (source) (M2C16)
  • Takes leg injury from Visser Three’s pile-driver fist that holes wall but survives. (source) (B20C16)
  • Follows Tom after Dracon shots. (source) (B50C25)
  • Spine severed but morphs back to human. (source) (B53C6/7)
  • Takes a fall. (source) (B53C8/9)
  • Bitten by David’s lion morph. (source) (B21C28)
  • Hit in head by David’s lion paw. (source) (B21C28)
  • Survives falling through skylight. (source) (B21C28 & B22C2)
  • Strikes faster than Jake can see; faster than Hork-Bajir. (source) (B1C24-25)
  • Slashes David’s lion with back legs, snapping head and drawing blood. (source) (B21C28)
  • Dodges point-blank Visser Three fireball while biting; second hits. (source) (B1C26)
  • Runs faster than Hork-Bajir, who outrun Rachel’s 30 MPH cat. (source) (B2C18)
  • Jumps over group of Controllers. (source) (B1C25)
  • Leaps over three desks. (source) (B38C3)
  • Dodges Visser Three Andalite tail strike. (source) (C3C26)
  • Paw strike too fast to see. (source) (C3C26)
  • Gets back on feet as fast as a cat. (source) (B21C28)
  • Reacts to David’s lion charge, which human couldn’t. (source) (B21C28)
  • Sees in darkness like daylight. (source) (B1C24)
  • Roar shakes ceiling light fixtures. (source) (B38C3)
  • Bigger, heavier, and as fast as David’s lion. (source) (B21C28)

Peregrine Falcon Morph

  • Survives near two Dracon beam explosions. (source) (B49C11/12)
  • Flies faster than Rachel and Tobias (about 60 MPH); navigates thick woods at speed. (source) (B2C1)
  • Faster than Tobias’s osprey. (source) (B36C4)
  • Flown at around 200 MPH. (source) (B4C8)
  • Another peregrine at 200 MPH; makes red-tailed hawks like Tobias seem still. (source) (B51C3)
  • Could intercept diving golden eagle if closer. (source) (B20C22)
  • Carries four-ounce weight. (source) (B21C19)
  • Drops backward to dodge golden eagle. (source) (B21C27)
  • Sees Yeerk stealth technology. (source) (B20C22)
  • Flies at fifty feet up. (source) (B36C4)
  • Dive bombs someone while carrying weight. (source) (B21C19-20)

Dog Morph

  • Hears and smells at finer level than human; unheard sounds like boom box. (source) (B1C9)
  • Hears Tom and smells him to know he’s nearby. (source) (B1C14)
  • Senses something off about Yeerk-controlled Tom. (source) (B1C9)
  • Tracks scent, notices change to lion morph. (source) (B21C7-8)

Lizard Morph

  • Captures and swallows entire spider. (source) (B1C16)
  • Runs with blurring legs, attacks like striking snake. (source) (B1C16)
  • Loses tail to escape. (source) (B1C17)

Wolf Morph

  • Blasted through tunnel by gas explosion with others slamming into him. (source) (B43C21/22/23)
  • Can run all day if necessary. (source) (M1C13)
  • Smells that Rachel ate bacon for breakfast. (source) (B3C6)

Hammerhead Shark Morph

  • Teeth cut Marco in hammerhead morph by grazing. (source) (B36C9)
  • Swims fine after chunk bitten from tail by Rachel’s hammerhead. (source) (B42C17)
  • While shrunken, swims through Marco’s bloodstream like seawater. (source) (B42C16/17)
  • Senses electricity from other beings. (source) (B42C17)

Orca Morph

  • With others, mangles Yeerk submarine by slamming. (source) (B36C7)
  • While injured underwater, pushes another orca upwards with help. (source) (B36C7-8)
  • Multiple pieces sliced off but stays conscious to demorph, surface, remorph and rejoin fight. (source) (B36C6-7)
  • Higher intelligence makes it easier to control; feels like orca knows it’s controlled. (source) (B36C3)
  • Uses echolocation to sense invisible Yeerk submarine. (source) (B36C5)
  • Weighs 8 tons, 20 feet long. (source) (B36C7)

Hork-Bajir Morph

  • Slices into one Hork-Bajir, punches another away. (source) (B45C18)
  • Knocks out Hork-Bajir with Dracon beam butt. (source) (B49C9)
  • Ducks behind trolley under Dracon fire; possibly hit. (source) (B45C18)

Giant Squid Morph

  • Dives to fifteen thousand feet. (source) (B27C12-13)
  • Suckers rip chunks from sperm whale’s skin. (source) (B27C22)
  • Eye sees up to a mile underwater. (source) (B27C24)
  • 60 feet long, tentacles almost 30 feet. (source) (B27C21)
  • Releases ink cloud. (source) (B27C27)
  • Nimbly hits number 6 on keypad with tentacle. (source) (B27C25)
  • Tentacles almost 30 feet long. (source) (B27C22)

Rhinoceros Morph

  • Sends someone flying. (source) (B20C19)
  • Wrecks a cop car. (source) (B27C9)
  • Wouldn’t take serious damage from pistol. (source) (B20C19)

Cockroach Morph

  • Unaffected by losing a leg. (source) (B20C25)
  • Immune to falling damage. (source) (B21C1)
  • Can live without heart beating or head for a week; squashed guts fatal. (source) (B51C14)
  • Survives being run over by tank. (source) (B14C11)
  • Evades being stepped on. (source) (B20C25)
  • Jumps vertically, hits pole, zooms up it. (source) (B20C25)

Other Saved Morphs

  • Bat morph: While shrunken, survives Dracon shot and stomach acid fall; demorphs to heal. (source) (B42C14/15)
  • Ant morph: Carries objects larger than itself. (source) (B5C13)
  • Fly morph: Temporarily survives swatting. (source) (B16C7-8)
  • Dolphin morph: Fights multiple sharks. (source) (B4C11)
  • Great Horned Owl morph: Good dark eyesight, quiet flight. (source) (B36C11)
  • Beaver morph: With Ax, gnaws through tree to fell it. (source) (B47C18)
  • Dragonfly morph: Flies under hat, hovers over head, moves with person to sneak in. (source) (B21C11-12)
  • Dragonfly eyes good for bug but not thousands of yards. (source) (B21C11)
  • Squirrel morph: Uses Swiss Army knife to slice window screen, bites to rip open. (source) (B35C6)
  • Racehorse, Mole, Flea, Termite, Mosquito, Trout, Lobster, Parrot, Seagull, Anaconda, Twenty years-older human.

Tyrannosaurus Rex Morph (Lost)

  • Leaping, rips through steel hull like foil, flattens segment. (source) (M2C33)
  • Yanks elephant-sized Triceratops off ground, shakes to death. (source) (M2C29)
  • Breaks foot-diameter tree trunk with effort. (source) (M2C10)
  • With others, topples 30-40 foot robot tower. (source) (M2C32)
  • Scrapes bark off tree with talon. (source) (M2C10)
  • Kills giant dinosaur. (source) (M2C16)
  • Kills baby dinosaur with jaws. (source) (M2C7)
  • With tails, rips bushes and small trees from ground. (source) (M2C28)
  • Knocked into tree by Triceratops, breaking it. (source) (M2C28)
  • Survives blast plowing five-foot furrows in ground. (source) (MC21 & MC33)
  • Jumps back to avoid Triceratops horns. (source) (M2C28)
  • Speed made flesh. (source) (M2C28)
  • Sees narrow columns of ant-like creatures. (source) (M2C31)
  • Ax states he’d lose to it 90% of time. (source) (M2C11)
  • Jaws open four feet wide. (source) (M2C10)
  • Fourteen thousand pounds, over forty feet long. (source) (M2C35)
  • Most powerful predator in Earth’s history. (source) (M2C28)

Other Lost Morphs

  • Jaguar, Monkey, Leeran (psychic alien).

Future Jake

  • Physically buff. (source) (B41C4)
  • Resists suction pulling in Taxxons. (source) (B41C9)
  • Takes down an Orff. (source) (B41C17)
  • Bitten on leg by Taxxon but continues, limping. (source) (B41C9/10)
  • Launched by air current, lands in park unharmed. (source) (B41C22)
  • Suddenly morphs to tiger despite inability. (source) (B41C17)
  • KOed but demorphs to heal. (source) (B41C17/18)
  • Battles Hork-Bajir and Orffs in tiger morph. (source) (B41C27)
  • Smashes through metal door in tiger morph. (source) (B41C27)
  • Crushes Orff leg arteries with bite in tiger morph. (source) (B41C27)
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